HOME INVENTORY

Privacy Policy

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1. About this policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Home Inventory: QR Box Labels ("Home Inventory") handles information when you use it. Home Inventory is an Android app for listing what is in your boxes, shelves and rooms, printing QR labels for the boxes and scanning a label to see what is inside. It works offline, needs no account, and does not ask for your name, email address, contacts, microphone or location.

2. Your inventory stays on your device

Everything you enter is stored in the app's own storage on your device. Search, labels, reports and moving mode run on your device. Your inventory and photos are never uploaded, and the developer has no server that could receive them. There is no cloud sync and no sharing between devices.

  • Locations, boxes and items. The app keeps the locations and boxes you create (name, notes, the short code on the label and, in moving mode, whether a box is packed, loaded or arrived) and your items (name, quantity, notes and tags, and with Premium the value, purchase date, serial number and warranty date).
  • Photos. You add an item photo or a receipt photo by taking it with your phone's camera app or by choosing it in Android's photo picker. Home Inventory receives only the pictures you take or choose this way. It keeps a reduced copy and a small preview in its own storage and deletes both when you delete the item. It does not read your photo library.
  • Backup file. Backup writes one ZIP file with your list and all photos to the place you choose in Android's file picker. Restore reads a backup file you choose. The file goes only where you save it; the developer never receives it, and the app keeps no copy.
  • Label sheets and reports. Label sheets (PDF) and reports (PDF or CSV) are made on your device. They go to the printer or print service you choose in Android's print dialog, to the place you choose in the file picker, or to an app you pick in the share menu.
  • Settings. Your currency, item order, theme and language, together with app state such as your onboarding answer, review timing, the time of your last backup and your active Premium plan, are stored on your device.
  • Android backup. If Android backup is turned on, Android may include your list (without photos) and your settings in your own device backup in your Google account. Photos and previews are left out of that backup. When you set up a new phone by copying directly from the old one (Android 12 or later), Android may copy everything, photos included. The developer cannot see either copy. To move your inventory with its photos in any other case, use the app's Backup and Restore.

3. Scanning labels

To scan a box label, Home Inventory opens the code scanner that Google provides through Google Play services. The scanner shows its own camera screen and gives the app only the text of the QR code (the box's short code). Home Inventory has no camera permission, never sees the camera picture, and scans only its own labels. According to Google, the scan runs on your device and the picture and the result are not stored by Google Play services. Google Play services downloads the scanner once, which needs an internet connection, and the scanner may send Google device and app information and usage and diagnostic data under the Google Privacy Policy. If the scanner is not available, you can type the short code from the label into the search bar instead.

4. Advertising (Google AdMob)

If you don't have Premium, Home Inventory shows ads from Google AdMob in two places:

  • a banner on the item list of a box, while the list shows items;
  • an optional rewarded ad that you can choose to watch to export one report.

Home Inventory shows no full-screen ads between screens, and no ads on the home, scan, add, search, label or backup screens. To deliver, measure and protect ads, Google and its ad partners may process your device's Android advertising ID, your IP address and the approximate location derived from it, device and app information, and ad interaction and diagnostic data. The contents of your inventory are not used for ads and are not sent to Google.

Before ads load, Home Inventory uses Google's User Messaging Platform to ask for your consent, or to offer the choices privacy laws require, where those laws apply (for example in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland). You can change your choices at any time under Settings → Ad privacy choices (shown when it applies to you), and you can reset or delete your advertising ID in Android's settings. On Android versions that offer them, the ads SDK may also use Android's own ad privacy features, which you control in your device's ad privacy settings. With Premium you see no ads: the app shows no consent form and doesn't start the ads SDK.

How Google uses information from apps that use its services · Google Privacy Policy

5. Purchases (Google Play)

Premium is sold through Google Play, as a one-time purchase or as a yearly subscription that renews automatically until you cancel it in Google Play. Google Play handles the payment: Home Inventory never receives your card or other payment details. To unlock Premium, the app asks Google Play on your device which Home Inventory purchases your Google account owns, and it stores only which Premium plan is active (lifetime or yearly). Google Play gives the developer order records (such as an order number, the product, the price, the date and the country) for accounting, tax, refunds and support. Google describes how it handles your purchase in the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Play Terms of Service.

6. Reviews, analytics and support emails

After a scan or a search has taken you to a box or an item a few times, Home Inventory may show Google Play's in-app review card, at most once every 30 days and never over an ad. Your rating and review go to Google Play under your Google account; Home Inventory does not receive them and does not know whether you left one.

Home Inventory does not include analytics or crash-reporting SDKs, and the developer does not track how you use the app. If this changes in a future version, this policy will be updated before that version is released. When you choose Settings → Send feedback, your email app opens a draft that includes the app version, Android version, device model and app language so the developer can help you; you can edit or delete these lines before sending. Your email is used only to answer you.

7. Permissions

Home Inventory asks you for no permissions while you use it. Its Android manifest declares only these, which Android grants at install:

  • Internet and network state: for ads, the consent form and Google Play purchases.
  • Advertising ID and Android's ad services (AD_ID, ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS): added by the Google Mobile Ads SDK.
  • Google Play billing (BILLING): for purchases.
  • Keep awake and foreground service (WAKE_LOCK, FOREGROUND_SERVICE): added by Android's job scheduling library, which the ads SDK uses. Home Inventory has no background features of its own and shows no notifications.
  • An internal permission (DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION) that only Home Inventory can hold. Android's support library uses it to protect the app's own messages.

The app has no camera, storage, photo library, microphone, location, contacts or notification permission. Labels are scanned in Google's scanner screen, photos are taken by your phone's camera app or chosen in the photo picker, and files are saved and opened through Android's file picker, which gives the app access to the files you choose and nothing else.

8. Children

Home Inventory is a general-audience tool and is not directed to children under 13. The developer does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through an ad, contact the developer, who will help you ask Google to delete it.

9. Retention, security and deletion

Your locations, boxes, items, photos and settings stay on your device until you delete them in the app, clear the app's storage or uninstall Home Inventory. Deleting a box or a location deletes everything in it. Backup files, saved label sheets and exported reports are your own files: delete them where you saved them. A copy in your Android backup is managed in your Google account. Advertising data is kept by Google under its own policies, and purchase records by Google Play. Depending on the law that applies to you, you may ask for access to or deletion of personal information processed on the developer's behalf by writing to the contact below; the developer replies within 30 days and forwards the request to the relevant provider. No storage or transmission method is completely secure, but Home Inventory does not store personal information on its own servers, and the Google services it uses send data over encrypted connections. The app's storage is protected by Android; a backup file is not encrypted, so keep it somewhere you trust.

10. Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when Home Inventory's features or data practices change. The updated policy will show a new date on this page.

11. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact the Home Inventory developer at [email protected].

Terms of Use

By downloading or using Home Inventory you agree to these terms. The developer grants you a personal, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. Do not copy, modify, reverse-engineer or redistribute the app except as allowed by law.

Premium. Without Premium you can keep up to 100 items in 10 boxes with one photo per item, and print or save one sheet of labels at a time in the standard layout. Premium unlocks unlimited items and boxes, several photos per item, item details (value, purchase date, serial number, warranty date and a receipt photo), reports, bulk label printing with a choice of layouts and a start position, moving mode and no ads. It is offered as a one-time purchase (lifetime) or as a yearly subscription, at the price Google Play shows before you pay. The subscription renews automatically every year until you cancel it in Google Play (Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions); after you cancel, Premium stays active until the end of the year you paid for. Refunds follow Google Play's refund policies. Premium belongs to the Google account that bought it: use Settings → Restore purchases on another device. Watching a rewarded ad unlocks one report export only. If Premium is no longer active, nothing is deleted: everything you entered stays on your device and can still be viewed, and backup and restore keep working. You can still edit the name, quantity, notes, tags and photos of your items; item details (value, purchase date, serial number, warranty date, receipt photo) stay readable, but changing them needs Premium again, as do adding beyond the limits and using the other Premium features.

Your data and results. Your inventory exists only on your device, so you are responsible for keeping backups: if the phone is lost, broken or reset, or the app is uninstalled, the developer cannot recover your data. You are responsible for what you enter and for the photos you add. Reports list what you entered; Home Inventory does not value your belongings, is not an insurance service and does not promise that an insurer will accept a report. Ask your insurer what they need. The size of printed labels also depends on your printer and its settings, so print at actual size and try one sheet on plain paper first.

Home Inventory is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. To the extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for indirect or consequential damages, lost data, lost or misplaced belongings, wasted label sheets, or interruptions caused by your device, operating system, store or ad provider. The developer may update the app or these terms; continued use after an update means you accept the updated terms. These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Indonesia, without limiting consumer rights you have in your country.

Support

Need help? Email [email protected]. Settings → Send feedback fills in your app version, Android version and device model for you; the version is also shown at the bottom of Settings.

Labels print at the wrong size. In the print dialog choose actual size or 100 % and turn off "fit to page". Choose the paper that matches the layout (A4 or Letter). Print one sheet on plain paper first and hold it against the label sheet.

Paper and label sizes. A4: 8 labels per sheet (99.1 × 67.7 mm) or 21 labels (63.5 × 38.1 mm). Letter: 10 labels (4 × 2 in) or 30 labels (2-5/8 × 1 in). Each paper also has a sheet of 8 labels with cut lines for plain paper. The first layout of each paper is the standard one; the others, more than one sheet per print and a start position need Premium.

Scanning doesn't work. Scanning needs a camera and Google Play services, and an internet connection the first time so the scanner can be set up. It reads only labels made by Home Inventory, not product barcodes. If scanning is not available, type the short code printed under the QR code into the search bar to open the same box.

Backup and restore. Backup saves one ZIP file with your list and all photos where you choose. To move to a new phone, make a backup, copy the file to the new phone and choose Restore there. Restore replaces the current list after asking you; it never merges. A backup made by a newer version of the app can't be restored by an older one: update the app first.

The 100-item and 10-box limits. Without Premium you can add up to 100 items and 10 boxes. What you already have always stays visible, also after restoring a larger backup, and its names, quantities and notes stay editable; changing item details (value, dates, serial number, receipt) needs Premium.

Premium and restore. Premium is linked to your Google account. On a new phone, sign in with the same Google account and use Settings → Restore purchases. Manage or cancel the yearly subscription in Google Play (Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions) or from Settings → Manage subscription. Restoring purchases does not bring back your inventory: that is what the backup file is for.

Delete your data. Delete items, boxes or locations in the app, or clear the app's storage or uninstall Home Inventory to delete everything it keeps on your device. Delete backup files, label sheets and reports where you saved them. For advertising data, use Settings → Ad privacy choices or your device's advertising ID settings, or email the developer with the subject "Delete my Home Inventory data".